Showing posts with label Windows XP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows XP. Show all posts
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Recovery Windows XP's file system when it’s missing / damaged
If you've ever experienced Windows system files (like *. dll and *. sys) which is damaged (corrupted) or lost, so that windows can not boot (just displays a message that the file was mising or corrupt xx.dll), then try to follow these steps:
1. Restart the computer from the Windows Setup floppy disks or the Windows Installation CD
2. When performing "Welcome to Setup" screen press F10 or press R (Windows 2000 users need to press F10 or R and C).
3. When shown a list of installation and the text "Which Windows Installation would you like to log on to?", Select a suitable number in accordance with the Installation of Windows you want the repair
4. Write an Administrator Password and press Enter. If no password, press enter directly
5. From the display that appears, type the command as follows:
expand D: \ i386 \ xx.dll C: \ dir_target
Xx.dll Where is the name of the file is damaged / lost to the recovery, D: is the drive letter for your CD-ROM and dir_target a target directory, then hit enter.
6. After that, type exit, to exit and remove the CD and restart computer
Monday, August 16, 2010
How to Fix the Blue Screen Of Death in Windows XP
As we all know, windows has a fatal error and the error is known as blue screen or blue screen of death (BSOD). This error can be practically very serious because if an error occurs then the windows screen suddenly turns blue and the computer can not be controlled. The only way to end this error is to restart on your computer.
Before knowing how to fix blue screen error on your computer, we must first know the cause of these blue screen errors. The cause of this blue screen error in general there are two kinds which is caused by hardware and by software. Blue screen error was due to conflict or incompatibility between the hardware from one another, or one with software that other software as well as installation of hardware that is not quite right.
Blue screen error usually happens after we installed new hardware or new software. If this problem (error blue screen) occurred after we installed new hardware, how to fix it is:
1. turn off your pc by pressing the power button on your computer casing
2. open the cover of your pc casing
3. Unplug the new hardware is installed, if the hardware is the module that is installed on PCI slot, remove the hardware from the PCI slot
4. Clean the existing brass pins on the module / card
5. Reinstall the hardware with the right position
6. Turn on the PC
Blues screen appear occurs after you install new software. Usually this happens because the new software we install it into conflict with one previously installed software. To overcome this error we follow the following steps:
1. When the blue screen error appears, turn off your PC by simply pressing the power button on the PC casing
2. again turn on the PC by simply pressing the power button and login into safe mode by pressing the F8 key just before entering windows
3. and select "Safe Mode"
4. after windows login into safe mode, uninstall the program that installed the last time that causes the error pc
5. then restart your PC back into normal mode.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
How to improve Windows XP performance
1. Defragment Your Computer - This will place the same files physically closer on the hard disk and will help increase the speed of the load.
2. Perform a disk clean.
3. Make Windows Load Faster
4. Set Pagefile size
- Click Start, once again, run and then click.Type, "dfrg.msc" into the text field.
- Click Defrag to start it.
2. Perform a disk clean.
- Click start at the bottom left corner, then click run.
- Type, "cleanmgr.exe" into the text field.
- Press "OK". It can take a while if you've never done before.
3. Make Windows Load Faster
- Click Start, then Run.
- Type 'msconfig' and press enter.
- Click on the BOOT.INI tab at the top.
- To the right will have a box labeled Timeout with 30 in it. Change 30 to third.
4. Set Pagefile size
- Click Start, (Settings), Control Panel, System. (It's like a step above this.)
- Open the Advanced tab. Click the Settings button under Performance.
- Now switch to the Advanced tab, then click 'Change' under Virtual Memory.
- You will see 'Initial Size (MB)' and Maximum size (MB) '.
- Change 'initial size' with the same value and then click set as a 'Maximum Size'.
- NOTE: When your computer is consuming your computer's hard drive and use it as RAM, is referred to as a blow. Thrashing is bad for your computer and buy a RAM (not expensive) is far more valuable.
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